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Thesaurus > Matter > Organic matter > Vitality > Special vitality

366. Animal

Nouns

  • animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.
  • beast, brute, creature, critter [US dialect], wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.
  • [major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.
  • [microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule etc. S193.
  • [reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur [extinct]; snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick [obs3].
  • [amphibians] frog, toad.
  • [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.
  • [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.
  • [arthropods] tardigrade, spider.
  • [classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped.
  • flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae [Lat]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock [obs3], duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.
  • [domesticated mammals] horse etc. (beast of burden) S271; cattle, kine [obs3], ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn; sheep; lamb, lambkin [obs3]; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer, stot [obs3]; tag, teg [obs3]; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
  • [dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
  • [cats][generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin [obs3]; gib cat, tom cat.
  • [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar [obs3].
  • bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet [obs3], rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine [obs3], cushat [obs3], cygnet, ringdove [obs3], siskin, swan, wood pigeon.
  • [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [Western US], pest.

Adjectives

  • animal, zoological
  • equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory [obs3], piscatorial; molluscous [obs3], vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial [obs3], solidungulate [obs3], soliped [obs3].
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